Sketches of Wonderland

Archive.org has two copies of Olin Wheeler’s 1894 Wonderland, titled Indianland and Wonderland. Neither have covers, so I won’t try to reproduce them here. If you want one, I recommend this one, which was scanned in color instead of black and white. While still more or less a travelogue, Wheeler has started to focus on a few interesting subjects. One chapter, for example, is about the Jesuit Indian missions of the Northwest.

Click image to download a 44.1-MB PDF of this 114-page booklet.

While archive.org’s 1895 edition, Sketches of Wonderland, has a cover, it is still in the squiggly lines format used for the 1893 edition. At least some flowers have been added. The travelogue portion of the booklet is only 19 pages long. This was followed by in-depth chapters on Yellowstone National Park, Rainier National Park, and Alaska. The graphics in the booklets are evolving as well, as photographs increasingly replaced woodcuts in the 1893 through 1895 editions.


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